If it wasn’t for that piano music Kingdom Hearts would be a comedy.
Yoko Shimomura is literally braver than any marine
When Nomura hands her the script for KH4 and she’s gotta figure out how to make Mickey dying in Noctis’ arms look anything but ridiculous with only her piano
I'm hetero but I have a tendency to fetishize gay male characters sometimes and I hate it. I know it's a sin, but also even the gay community would be mad at me for fettishizing them. It's like a lose, lose situation on every side. Pray for me if you have a moment. ♡
You know I remember a moment I held Shiro (from Voltron) at an idol position.
I would draw him, I would read fan fictions on him, lots of other things… *ahem*
Anyways, when I came stronger in my faith I told God I’d choose him over Shiro if I had to.
And guess what. God put me to the test.
Shiro came out as gay and I was DEVASTATED. But I knew I had to let it go. I couldn’t worship sin. I couldn’t accept him, I had to let him go.
So I chose God over Shiro.
Here’s the thing; interests come and go, they’ll change overtime, but God will always stay the same. He’ll always be there.
Gods worth it!
22 I will die in this land; I will not cross the Jordan; but you are about to cross over and take possession of that good land.23 Be careful not to forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the Lord your God has forbidden. 24 For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Am I having a fucking stroke
God made an anime boy gay just to test this girl’s faith… wow 😯
It’s really awful luck, and they did everything they should have in each situation. There were actually four giraffes lost there in 2018.
The first two giraffes that died were calves, one in September and one in November. The first was two months old and lived at the off-site conservation facility The Wilds, and was simply found dead one morning. He’d been observed nursing normally the day before and there were no indications anything had been wrong. The second was a calf living at the zoo who died after a really sudden decline that appeared to be related to some sort of gastric distress: they did a ton of diagnostics and gave her really intensive care with round-the-clock overnight treatment, but it wasn’t enough to save her. I don’t believe necropsy results have been released yet for either calf - it takes a while to get results back from labs, so in the case of the November calf, the investigation might be complete yet. Both of those deaths are heartbreaking because babies, but it’s important to also keep in mind that babies die pretty regularly in the wild no matter what species you’re talking about. American zoos have an annual mortality rate for giraffes in zoos that’s half what it is for wild giraffes, so it’s obvious that they’re doing a lot to protect and care for the babies born in human care. Sometimes things just happen, and sometimes diagnostics and treatment just can’t happen fast enough to be successful when you’re dealing with juvenile animals.
The most recent giraffe death was due to an attempted medical intervention in an emergency. An adult female was in labor with her calf the wrong way around, a condition which is not only dangerous for the baby but often for the mothers as well. Zoo staff tried to manually re-position the baby to no avail, and they decided to do a C-section. The comment I’ve seen in the media is that they thought this posed the best chance of saving both mother and baby, which implies that they weren’t sure the mother would survive the birth, no matter what happened to the calf. C-sections are very rare to do on giraffe because anesthetizing ruminants is risky (they’re likely to inhale their cud because regurgitating it is reflexive, but they can’t swallow when unconscious) and because they don’t tend to recover well. There are three known instances of a giraffe surviving a C-section worldwide. It turned out the calf had congenital deformities bad enough it wouldn’t have survived no matter what, and unfortunately, the mother collapsed shortly thereafter and couldn’t get back up. It’s awful. The vet team had to make a really hard call: leave the giraffe in a situation where one or both would probably die without intervention, or do something radical on the chance it could save one or maybe both of them. In that sort of situation, unless there are major welfare implications, zoos will choose to take the extreme action to try to save a life rather than letting nature take it’s course. The situation was stacked against them in ways they couldn’t have known about, but they did the absolute best they could.
This is the hardest part about working with animals. Sometimes things go wrong and there’s absolutely nothing that can be done to predict, prevent, or fix it. The Columbus Zoo has gone to heroic efforts to try to save their giraffes and they just were in situations where there wasn’t anything they could do. Those deaths aren’t their fault.
